How did you get here? - A writing prompt
A writing prompt.
How did you get HERE? - make a list of all the doors that you went through to get to where you are sitting or standing now? You can go as far back in your personal history as you choose for this, and the doors can be as physical, metaphysical, metaphorical as you choose. Then choose one of these doors and write for 5 minutes about how you felt when you stood before it for the first time.
Join us later this week for doors & portals creative writing workshop with poet and writer, Carolyn Hashimoto.
You can sign up here.
ASIA and OCEANIA friendly times
Wednesday 18th January 7:30pm JST
Wednesday 18th January 9:30pm AEDT
Wednesday 18th January 6:30pm SGT
Wednesday 18th January 10:30am GMT
USA and EMEA friendly times
Thursday 19th January 5am JST
Wednesday 18th January 8pm GMT
Wednesday 18th January 3pm EST
Wednesday 18th January 12pm PST
Thursday 19th January 9am (NZDT)
See in your timezone here.
Who is Carolyn?
Carolyn Hashimoto is a published poet, editor and mentor who returned to Scotland after living in Japan for 20 years. She has published two collections of poetry - COW (Osmosis Press, 2022) and The Chips are Down Here in Lockdown (OrangeApplePress, 2021) - and other works have appeared in Gutter Magazine, 3AM Magazine, BlueHouse Journal and Tentacular amongst others. COW is currently being studied as part of Brunel University’s MA in Creative Writing, and Carolyn is herself a graduate, with distinction, of the University of Glasgow’s prestigious creative writing masters’ programme. She is the founder and editor of Skirting Around – an online journal which explores the politics and emotions of women’s clothing through writing and art. Issue 3 of which will be coming out in February, and a series of Weekly Workouts are currently being run by Carolyn on Zoom. Her mentorship programme Lost For Words was launched in 2022, and is open to writers of all levels and abilities. In the same year she was invited to participate in JUPE: Japanese UK Poetry Exchange - an international poetry project which featured new collaborations made by Japanese and British poets.
You can find more about workshop here.